Location: San Rafael, CA
URL: http://telltalegames.com
Telltale Games, a pioneer in the field of episodic gaming, is looking for a graphic designer to act as a creative lead for our entire online presence – someone as passionate about design and usability as we are about making great games. We are dedicated to making every aspect of our customers’ experience as fun and rewarding as possible, and your eye for detail and talent for innovative thinking will be encouraged and rewarded at Telltale!
The ideal candidate for this position should have:
- Experience taking full web projects from conceptualization to completion, preferably in a team environment
- A love for creating simple, approachable user experiences
- A strong sense of good site flow, presentation, and information prioritization
- Familiarity with the general workings of online communities, product information sites, and web storefronts, and a desire to make them all more awesome
- Excellent fundamental graphic design skills such as layout, composition, color, and readability
- Experience hand-coding HTML and CSS
- Working knowledge of the capabilities and constraints of browsers, CSS, HTML, AJAX, and JavaScript
- Expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator, and other graphic design software
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Craft and oversee a comprehensive user experience across our online store & purchase path
- Oversee and create web advertising collateral for Telltale products, including creating on-site product pages and store artwork, and overseeing banner ads and advertising created for third party sites
- Design and implement game-specific mini-sites and interactive content (such as user-generated comics and mini-games), based on marketing requirements and working together with the web development team
- Maintain community forums, blogs, and contests as part of a cohesive and consistent web presence
- Work with business development and marketing teams to create and shape consistent brand identity and presence for Telltale’s products across the website, merchandise, package design, and other media
BONUS POINTS
- Experience in print design, from advertising, to typesetting and layout, to product packaging
- Experience or interest in game user interface design
- Experience in video editing and production
- Familiarity with a 3D package such as Maya or 3D Studio Max
PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENT
Along with your cover letter and resume, please include a portfolio of samples that represent the range of your skills, provided that everything has been cleared for release by copyright owners. We prefer links to online portfolios, but you can also send optical media or color photocopies to:
Telltale Games – Portfolio Submission, PO Box 9737, San Rafael, CA 94912-9737
NOTE: Please do not send original works as we will not be able to return them.
Telltale Games is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by Federal, State or local law.
To apply: Send your resume to jobs@telltalegames.com with the subject "Web / Graphic Designer" Please be aware that you must be legally qualified to work in the United States to be considered for this position.